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captainill

5 karma · joined March 8, 2012

Product Design @ HashiCorp
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captainill··on Spreadsheet formulas for personal finance
Does anyone have a good resource for learning to write beginner through advanced formulas?
captainill··on Wireflow – an open-source flowchart real-time collaboration tool
This is not a good experience. Very bizarre choice.
captainill··on A Personal API
Props to the OP/author for both the article and receptivity to critique regarding UX here in comments.
captainill··on Trends in the San Francisco (mostly dog?) poop crisis
This. Would love to know but am not willing to scan photos of excrement to do my own analysis. I have my own personal experience of living in SF for 10 years, in the Mission. I’ve seen a lot of human looking fecal matter.
captainill··on Browser tabs are probably the wrong metaphor
Been really enjoying workona as well. Have found myself recommending to folks on my team. I organize my tabs into their “workspaces” which map to the strategic and tactical projects I’m juggling. Helps me switch btwn contexts
captainill··on Why Facebook's Parse shutdown is good news
-Apps, mega niches, are the future! (Yeap)

-Don't let any one app to be the sole place a user gets his content (I'm with you here as I didn't create Facebook)

-Parse is no more (I read that somewhere too)

-Now you can focus on leveraging an existing platform to bring engaging content to your users. (What if I want to service a mega niche that doesn't exist or generally wish to be foolish enough to believe I can compete with my idea? Wouldn't it be convenient to leverage a Backend as a service like parse? Shame they shutdown)

captainill··on Different Brain Regions Are Infected with Fungi in Alzheimer’s Disease
If you've ever taken antibiotics for an extended period and ended up with a fungal infection due to the loss commensal bacteria this is pretty intriguing. There is a lot of new literature proposing links between gut disruption and neurodegenerative disease.
captainill··on Typebase.css: Simplified typography for the web
He's using -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; With this sort of font it looks terribad. You see this way to often. I've been guilty of it by proxy when another dev comes in and applies this style to the <body>